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22 February 2005

No, I am not going to talk about Russian emperor or Russian witchor stuff like that. This is a title of new movie starring Keanu Reeves.here, Keanu reeves plays as Constantine, a supernatural detective whowork to "send devil back to the place they belong"...in short...hell :)

The interesting things about Constantine are:1. He was born with unusual gift. He can see devils in their real formand communicate with them. Now, if you are 3 years old kid with thisability, you must be scare to the death looking old women with melted face :)

2. He smokes a lot .... a lot here truly means God damn tons of cigarrette :).There are many scenes show Constantine cough so badly, perhaps an acute TBC?Don't worry, Constantine won't die so easily. In fact, if he dies, he can justcall Lucifer to cancel it :)) Now, tell me, is it awesome or what?

3. His weapons...Jesus, cool ! I saw a shotgun with cross shape. The bulletsare filled with some sort of holy water, so it can destroy demons. There isalso a weapon called "Dragon breath", guess what...it spills out fire ! Don'tforget, a steel ring crafted with cross sign, COnstantine wear it on hisknuckles to knock out Balthazar ! Wait, he also bring Bible .... certainlynot to be read in the middle of shooting demons :)))

4. Constantine was committed a suicide when he was young (not surehow old he was at that time). He died and he should entered hell for hisaction. Here, I am not sure, but Constantine back to earth realm in exchange...well, you can say, a holy work...to send devils back to hell.

Although COnstantine is not an Oscar level movie with awesome storyline,I must say this movie brings us a different perspective. What kind ofperspective? Perspective that devil and angels are actually far far awayfrom us, but they bring influence to our life. If you go with angels (let'sassume God is also on angel's side, shall we?), you will approachsalvation. What if you go with devil, certainly you will get near toself destruction. I personally call it "lock, stock and two smoking barrels":))

Another positive message from this movie, everyone deserve second chance.Maybe you do something really nasty in the past (actually, who doesn't anyway?)Hey, we are mortals with tons of weakness, right? So, get up, ask for Hisforgiveness and go within God's way. "What if I fall again?" OK...areyou so badly injured? I guess not, so get up again and repeat the sameroutine. Eventually, you will enter Heaven and peace be with you eternally. End of story.....

The similarity between me and Constantine? That story will stay withme 'till the day I die.....

02 February 2005

Whenever I remember how this is started 4 months ago, I always said to myself "Gee, this article is considered to published on IBM DeveloperWorks where top notch writer and scientist share his/her idea. Maybe they are not God but surely they are among the best on earth !" To be honest, the article wasn't planned to shoot for IBM DeveloperWorks. I was targetting to another online publication but....shortly...maybe it is faith or something, IBM DeveloperWorks editor accepted my idea and I strongly considered it as big challenge.

The article is titled "Build a heterogeneous cluster with coLinux and openMosix". As the title said, it describes about the basic idea and how to create cluster of mixed platform. Here I used coLinux and openMosix as basic "igredients" because those are so far the tools me and Andreas Schaefer (my co-author) know best. Actually, it would be more comprehensive if we took another tool such as openSSI into account but I decide to leave that for now. If I already get sufficient knowledge, maybe I'll come back and do more extensive reserarch about it.

"Co-author you said?" Yes, you read it correctly. This is the first time I write something with another people. His name is Andreas Schaefer and he is (together with his colleague) the one who bring the idea of merging coLinux patch onto openMosix so openMosix can be executed on Windows platform. The first report about the successful test was about 9-10 months ago and it drew my attention quickly. I think "this is a simple but very useful idea so it deserve wider exposure. A well written article will do the work !". So, I asked Andreas whether he was interested and he agreed.

Sadly I am not inside openMosix community anymore so I can't share this joy, but I hope this is still considered as "contribution". I am always happy to share my idea and opinion with anyone , so via this article I hope I can draw more people's attention toward cluster technology and support it in every aspect available.

I also found several small surprises here. I and Andreas Schaefer share same birthday ! :)) Holy cow ! And Andreas said "what? your baptist name is Andreas? So we share same name and same birthday?" :)) At that time, I realize this is another wonderful experience God send to me so I can learn how to work with other people. Maybe God understand the difficulty of writing complex subject with other people so He send me someone who has more or less same thinking with me :))

And the conclusion is? I won't make this IBM article my last writing. Conversely, I will make it as another stepping stone to move into higher stage. And...i won't forget a clumsy words spilled at me 5 years ago "....i am not supposed to talk with people from your country..." Let see, which side is actually SHOULD GET MORE RESPECT, his side or my side?

I dedicate this article for the people of Aceh who had been swept away by Tsunami. I hope they regain their spirit to live normally as I also wrote this article using almost my fullest capability and struggle together with the editor to make it better. Live is too short to be spent for cry or sadness. Work hard, expand your knowledge, do something for others..that will make your live a valuable journey and shine eternally like sun through ages.